Dew, Re: you seem to have reverted to the INTC party line that CMS can't be very useful else INTC rather than TMTA would have thought of it.
Please don't put words in my mouth. However my comment came across, that's not the way I meant it. While I am an INTC investor, I realize that TMTA's code morphing software is one of the best things to come out of that company. It's probably the most efficient form of emulation ever to be created, and that says a lot.
However, you should know that emulation in and of itself has overhead, and that's what I mean by "baggage". No matter how elegant the Crusoe VLIW core is, it loses a lot of performance and functionality when it needs to run through emulation to comprehend x86 instructions. That's simply the nature of the beast.
It doesn't say anything about how innovative such an idea is. For all I know TMTA may continue to improve on their CMS to offer both added performance and lower power, as they claim, but it will never get to be 100% efficient - not unless software gets compiled for Crusoe's native ISA. Maybe that could happen some day, but if it does, CMS becomes irrelevant, does it not?
That's why I see the software as a "burden" on the CPU. Not that it isn't a fantastic piece of software, but rather that it adds overhead, and that it happens to be required for the CPU to run the software from the market in which it has been thrust. If you have a different perspective, you're welcome to hold on to it. This is just the way I see it.
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